[LLVMdev] Using C++'11 language features in LLVM itself

[Óscar Fuentes]

Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> writes:

> Wow, requiring GCC 4.7 would be really aggressive, it was just
> released in March 2012. Call me conservative, but I was thinking that
> a reasonable GCC baseline would be GCC 4.4 or something (which is ~3.5
> years old).

The feature intersection of GCC 4.4 and VS2010 leaves us with auto and
static_assert.